Drafting Throughout The Middle Ages

In the Medieval Times , life as an Armorer was difficult and hard working. As an Armorer in his daily life it was hard as a peasant. They would eat a very little and wear a very little. Also armorers wore blouses of clothes and skin fastened leather belt is round the waist and armorers went barefooted also in the winter. Since armorers were peasants they were poor so they had a limit on food. They usually would drink ale that was a type of beer because it was really popular for the lower class. As an educated peasant armorers were educated before the age 14. Another difficult task in the Medieval times was that armorers has land but it was mostly owned by Kings and Queens. Actually some armorers lived on their own small plot of land and

The European middle ages refers to a time between 476 and 1500 AD. The people of Europe saw a whole new take on warfare tactics bringing about the use of fortresses or castles which led to the creation of siege weapons such as the catapult, the use of mounted knights leading to the creation of new armor and weapons, and by the end of the middle ages the use of gunpowder led to the creation and usage of the first cannons.

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Kelly DeVries and Robert Douglas Smith. Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition. Toronto. University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2012. XVIII + 356 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, Index. ISBN 978-1-4426-0497-1.

Life in the high middle ages, between 1000 and 1300 A.D., had two kinds of communities, manorial villages and towns. The major difference in these two distinct types of communities was the freedom and rights of the people. In the manorial villages you had lords who owned large portions of land. The vassals who entered into a military obligation with the lords, in exchange for land and protection. Finally, serfs who were a class of people that worked their lord’s land as half slave and half freeman. Vassals were more of an employee and the serfs were little more than a slave because they were bound to the lord’s land. The serfs could not leave or do anything without the lord’s permission and most of the time they had to pay fees to be granted the permissions they requested. In contrast the townspeople elected their officials, had freedom to choose a careers, they move about where they liked, and could acquire training and schooling. Townspeople were in fact free and not absolutely controlled by a lord. As for the manorial villages, the lords had all the power and had absolute control over all the actions and work of the vassals and serfs.

Before the printing press was established, persons known as “copyists” made a living of drawing or writing different types of manuscript books.

Perhaps the most significant feature of America during the nineteenth century was the alarming rate at which it became an industrialized society. Looking in from the outside, all in America seemed satisfactory and wonderful. However, as unsparing competition and mechanization of the work process started to lower wages and worsen working conditions, workers saw their position and status wear away. Additionally, increased dependence on child and immigrant labor further lessened wages. It is unsurprising that wealth during this time period was not distributed equally, which workers were angered by.

Medieval warfare is warfare in the middle ages or the time period before the 18th century. (McDonald, James 2010). Advancements in weapons caused for more gruesome and bloody war. The use of swords, spears, axes and arrows caused for many fierce and bloody battles. Advancements in intelligence made for better tactics, strategies, travel and more important more victories.

Can you imagine fighting wearing a 50lb suit of amour while also wielding a 25lb sword? This is what knights had to do in the middle ages. They fought in tournaments and battles. Knights wore about 70-80lb of equipment while fighting while troops today wear about 50-60 pounds. Knights served in a government system called feudalism.

In my research essay, I will write about the role of the military in medieval Europe and will outline what the military were like and how they were established and organized. I will show how the military were connected to the government structure. I will also write about the technological and strategic advances that the military made during the medieval ages and how those had an impact on the role of the military today.

In the Middle Ages, drafting was a big part, most important in the Renaissance. The scientific illusion was drafting. Any drafts or sketches from back then brought ideas for new ones that we have today. This would take a system of different lines to be used and measure of tools.

Through the use of sketching techniques (the ability to create fast, understandable views of objects with only a pencil and a piece of paper- still used by engineers, designers, architects, builders, and craftsmen, today), the French had developed greater animation in their gothic decoration than their followers. They emphasized soaring heights and light qualities that were later adopted across Europe.

The concept of the guild, or occupational group, as its modern version has sometimes been called, is one of the most distinctive features of Catholic socio-economic thought. The guild combined two of the most important points of Catholic social theory, the principle of subsidiarity, as it later became known, and a distrust of purely economic motives in the conduct of human affairs. In the workings of the medieval guilds one can see both of these principles clearly, and because of this, Catholic thought has insisted on the continuing relevance of the guild idea to even a modern economy. The great differences between medieval and modern technology and social organization are no reason to question whether the guild system, with appropriate adaptations and modifications, is not still viable for a contemporary economy, as more than one twentieth-century pope insisted. In order to understand how the guilds embodied these principles, let us look at the actual operation of the medieval guilds in their own setting.

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible” ( Jonathon Swift). We have been indulging in the arts and have used art as a way to express and interact with the people surrounding us. To the carved images on rocks, and to the cartoons shown on the TV, the evolution of Graphic Design has shown us the importance of typography, photographers, illustrators etc. have on our society. When paper, ink, and pencils didn’t exist, our ancestors would carve their warnings, messages, and emotions on rocks and walls. Our ancestors don’t realize that such small acts such as these was the beginning of a huge movement, that wouldn’t be recognized until thousands years later. During the 16th century, China was able to establish a technique called woodblock printing or, the application of ink on raised curved surface, that allowed multiple text and images to be made quickly. China’s wide extension of printing slowly reached the middle east and caused Europe to start producing woodblock broadsides and printed books. The first printing press was constructed by Johannes Gutenberg, which was the first metal movable type to create a large amount of printed books. In the Old days books were very rare, expensive and were very valuable. The creation of the Printing press allowed books to be done faster, cheaper and it allowed books to be more accessible to the public. Graphic Design or “the art or skill of combining text and pictures in

Back when design first started out as a business, companies hired draughtsmen to draw and design what the client was asking for and traditionally the skills were in the production of hand drawn orthographic views of components. Back then there was a lot more skill involved and as CAD has been introduced I think the art of the draughtsman is slowly being lost and becoming more invaluable.